ABOLITIONIST FOR "ORDINARY CRIMES" ONLYCountries whose laws provide for the death penalty only for exceptional crimes such as crimes under military law or crimes committed in exceptional circumstances

BRAZILCHILE

EL SALVADORFIJIISRAEL

KAZAKHSTANPERU

ABOLITIONIST IN PRACTICECountries which retain the death penalty for ordinary crimes such as murder but can be considered abolitionist in practice in that they have not executed anyone during the past 10 years and are believed to have a policy or established practice of not carrying out executions. The list also includes countries which have made an international commitment not to use the death penalty

ALBANIA6abolished the death penalty for all crimes. and RWANDAabolished the death penalty for all crimes. KYRGYZSTAN abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes.

2008

UZBEKISTAN, CHILE and ARGENTINA abolished the death penalty for all crimes.

2009

BURUNDI and TOGO abolished the death penalty for all crimes.

2010

GABON removed the death penalty from its legislation.

2012

LATVIA abolished the death penalty for all crimes.

2013

BOLIVIA abolished the death penalty for all crimes.

Notes:1. In 1990 the German Democratic Republic became unified with the Federal Republic of Germany, where the death penalty had been abolished in 1949.2. Slovenia and Croatia abolished the death penalty while they were still republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The two republics became independent in 1991.3. In 1993 the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic divided into two states, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.4. In 1997 Hong Kong was returned to Chinese rule as a special administrative region of China. Amnesty International understands that Hong Kong will remain abolitionist.5. In 1999 the Latvian parliament voted to ratify Protocol No. 6 to the European Convention on Human Rights, abolishing the death penalty for peacetime offenses.6. In 2007 Albania ratified Protocol No. 13 to the European Convention on Human Rights, abolishing the death penalty in all circumstances. In 2000 it had ratified Protocol No. 6 to the European Convention on Human Rights, abolishing the death penalty for peacetime offences.7. In 2001 Bosnia-Herzegovina ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, abolishing the death penalty for all crimes.8. In 2005 Liberia ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, abolishing the death penalty for all crimes.9. Montenegro had already abolished the death penalty in 2002 when it was part of a state union with Serbia. It became an independent member state of the United Nations on 28 June 2006. Its ratification of Protocol No. 13 to the European Convention on Human Rights, abolishing the death penalty in all circumstances, came into effect on 6 June 2006.